Children’s book about a family of rabbits shopping adventure (remembering a grocery store and hardware store). We are looking for this for our daughter in law who lost her father to cancer 3 years ago and she remembers him reading it to her. It may have rabbits pushing a shopping cart on the front cover.
A mole is asleep in a hole but a bear (I think) thinks that he fell in and is hurt. He tries to get help but has to bargain with other animals e.g. horse has a rope but he wants a brush to swap, so bear goes to squirrel to get a brush but he wants nuts (I think) … eventually bear gets back to mole to find out he was only asleep
I am on a search for a particular children’s picture book. The description I can give is very vague, and I have no title or author name. It *might* be a foreign book translated into English, but I can’t be sure. I got a copy of this book in about 1986 – but it is probably a fair bit older than that. I’m guessing 1970s, but maybe even earlier.
Basically the book is about a naughty little boy who gets sent to his room. He is an angry young man and begins tearing up his room. The one specific thing I remember about the book was that the little boy tore all his wallpaper apart, and this separated the male shepherds from the female shepherds who were shown in the picture as very sad and crying.
The only other bit of information I can add is that I remember the illustrations were not very brightly coloured – they were pastel and had a sombre tone, but kind of brilliant (and a little scary when you’re 5 or 6).
I have googled my heart out with no luck so I’m hoping you can help!
A book about a baby that runs away to the moon. The book cover was of a baby angel sitting on the moon (maybe with a red polka dot hobo sack) I don’t remember much about the book but it maybe came out in the early 90s. I would check it out in elementary so I would say that was 1997-2003. He had black hair and a halo and he was sad and packed a sack and ran away to the moon.
The title somewhat resembles: The Cat with Amber Eyes or The Cat with Green Eyes
(In all honesty I’m not sure myself.)
Some of the details I remember from the book are that the cat had multiple brothers and sister that had (if the main cat had amber eyes) green eyes, or (if the main cat had green eyes) amber eyes. I remember the flowy and descriptive language describing how the cat would move from the trees to the ground.
It was (from the small fragments I remember) a book about a cat who felt like an outcast since his eyes didn’t match his siblings. Sorry that wasn’t much.
I don’t remember when it was published, nor by who, but I believe the cover had an illustration of a black cat with either green or amber eyes. (Another detail, I’m also sure the cat was all black).
I remember the book to be like a short novel a second grader can read, with large font; hardcover.
I’m sorry I don’t remember much, but I do hope you can find it with the little information I’ve given you.
Thank you very much,
I read this book in the 1960s but I have the impression that it was published somewhat earlier. It was what we called a “chapter book.” What I remember is that the girl’s father was a locks keeper, and she used to walk along the towpath with barges or boats.
Children’s book about a boy or girl and their adventures. I want to say there are fairies that are good and that moths are bad. At one point in the book the character uses toothpaste and moths and moth dust were inside the toothpaste.
Large format anthology children’s book with 1930s or 1940s art deco artwork. The only details I remember about the stories is one involved a joey that ate a lot of lady fingers and sodas in a drugstore before being found by his mother and another story which includes a scene where a child gets chased by a scarecrow-esque straw soldier through (I think) a lollipop field. I was given the book back in 1970 and it was quite old then. The two scenes I described above were illustrated so they stand out as a memory. The pictures were in color but only in that two-color green and orange that was popular back then (the book may even be as old as the 1920s. . . the style of art was certainly in line with that era).
Thanks!
A young girl slides amber (or precious stone) beads along a necklace (possibly belonging to her grandmother or found in an old house or bestowed upon her?) to travel to different periods in her own life and maybe throughout history, with a specific goal. She sees herself as a young woman, a grandmother. Her siblings are involved somehow, particularly a younger brother. At some point a knife or bloody knife portends something about how her younger brother is doing back in the present day (much like in many fairy tales). Her name was simple and classic like Jane or Anna or Annie. This book must have been published pre-1987, when my school librarian suggested it to me. It seemed already old at the time (which may just have been kid perception) so could possibly have a publish date anywhere from 1940s through early 80s.
It was a chapter book. Though it may have had a few line drawing illustrations throughout the text, it was not a picture book.
My mother remembers reading us a book about a grandma playing with her grandchild. She is babysitting, we think. At one point, the grandma shrinks in order to jump on the couch with her (or maybe the grandma has always been tiny?). That’s all we remember.
I was born in 1978, so this book was most likely
Published before 1980.
Thank you so much!